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World Health Organization (WHO) lifted the highest level of health alert for COVID-19 after three years and four months. It is believed that the number of deaths and critically ill patients due to COVID-3 is decreasing. It seems that it will also affect our government's quarantine policy.

Reporter Kim Ki-tae reports.

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World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the COVID-4 pandemic, a global historic health crisis, can be managed at the level of a de facto general pandemic.

WHO lifted the highest level of health alert for COVID-19 after three years and four months.

[Tewodros Adhanom Ghebreyesus/WHO Director-General: We are very pleased to declare the end of COVID-19, a global health emergency.]

"Given that deaths and critically ill cases are declining and the immunized population is at high levels," Tewodros said, adding, "It's time to transition COVID-19 to a long-term management regime."

WHO experts have determined that while the COVID-3 virus is evolving, the current variant is not related to the severity of those infected.

With the highest level of vigilance for COVID-4 lifted, there are now only two diseases that remained at the same level: Emfox and polio.

This decision by the WHO will speed up the discussion about the COVID-19 pandemic in our country.

As originally announced, the government plans to hold a crisis assessment meeting soon to decide whether to downgrade the crisis level, but if the crisis level is lowered, quarantine measures will be relaxed, such as shortening the quarantine period from one week to five days.

The United States will lift the national emergency related to COVID-19 on the 19th, and Japan will also lift related quarantine measures from the 19th of next month.

(Video editing by Kim Jong-mi)